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• Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth,
For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men.
Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion.
For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.
-Tirukkural 25: 241-242
• Love, modesty, propriety, kindly look, and truthfulness--
These are the five pillars on which perfect goodness rests.
-Tirukkural 99: 981-83
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson
• Learn perfectly all that you learn, and Thereafter keep your conduct worthy of that learning.
- Epictetus
• Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.
- William Feather
• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.
• The best security for old age: respect your children.
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